Posted by The Patuxent Partnership on December 19, 2013 · 1 Comment
Federal officials announced wind energy development leases would be offered for 80,000 acres at least 10 nautical miles off Ocean City late next year.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAH, Compass Systems, Cyber Command, DHS, federal budget, Guantanamo, job satisfaction, NSA, Patuxent Partnership, retiree benefits, Snowden, wind farm
Posted by Java Joe on December 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
In a recent letter to “the people of Brazil” NSA leaker Edward Snowden offered to help that nation investigate alleged American spying but would require Brazil to provide political asylum because the US “government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak.”
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Baltic Sea, Brazil, Chuck Hagel, CPPD, cyber security, drones, Gary Patton, Iskander, Lockheed Martin, missiles, NATO, NSA, Russia, sexual assault, Snowden, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, tuition assistance, Yemen
Posted by Publisher on December 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Boston Dynamics became the eighth robotics firm Google has purchased in the past six months. Current military contracts will be honored, say Google execs, but the company doesn’t seek to become a military contractor on its own.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags A-12, Bernhard Gerwert, Big dog robotics, Big Dogs, Boeing, Boston Dynamics, DARPA, Dick Cheney, EADS, Edward Snowden, Google, Growler, McDonnell Douglas, Military Officers Association of America, MOAA, National Defense Authorization Act, Navy Yard, NSA, robotics, Russia, SEpt 16\, soviet era weaponry, soviet weaponry, Supreme Court
Posted by Publisher on December 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Senate passage of the Defense Bill is predicted this week, but reductions in military retiree benefits and partisanship remain obstacles to passage of budget bill approved by the House last week.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags budget bill, Carl Levin, China, Chuck Hagel, East China Sea, F-16, F-18, F-et, Japan, Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, military benefits, military retirees, national defense bill, patty murray, Rep Paul Ryan, Sen. Patty Murray, Senate Armed Services Committee, Sikorsky Innovations, Singapore, South Korea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation
Posted by Java Joe on December 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Deal would avert another government shutdown, halve sequestration cuts for the current fiscal year and fund the government through October 2015. Pentagon spending cuts scheduled for January would be avoided while Defense spending is increased by $2 billion over last year.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags budget, Corporate Equality Index, cyber-attack, cybersecurity, DARPA, F-35, JSF, Lockheed Martin, Man of the Year, online gaming, sequesration, sonar testing, unmanned
Posted by Java Joe on December 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The new stealth drone may be twice the size of Lockheed Martin’s RQ-170 Sentinel drone which makes it large enough to conduct operations as an unmanned stealth bomber, although spying is likely the aircraft’s main mission.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Area 51, Boeing, drone, federal contractors, Kamkar, NDAA, Northrop Grumman, P-8 Poseidon, PTSD, RQ-170, RQ-180, SkyJack
Posted by Publisher on December 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Plans are for the F-35 to replace the F-18, but as important production dates approach the Navy and industry face tough and costly decisions based on projected completion dates that still look a bit iffy.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags $607 bilion defense spending bill, Boeing, Chuck Hagel, Cyber Gym, cyber-attack, defense spending bill, F-18, F-35, Gulf Cooperation Council, Israel, Jeff Bezo, JSF, Marine Corps, RADM Donald Gaddis, Say Kamkar, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, SkyJack, Super Hornet
Posted by Publisher on December 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment
US military technology continues to advance and the whole world wants it. Meanwhile the US military budget crumbles.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, arms sales, F-13, Homeland Defense, JSF, Lockheed, MUOS, Netanyahu, South Korea, submarine UAS launch
Posted by Java Joe on December 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The House completed work months ago, but Party quarreling in the Senate continues to hold up passage of the Pentagon spending bill. Senate leaders intend to reconsider the bill next week after returning from a two week hiatus.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags drone, F/A-18 Hornet, Global Hawk, hackers, House of Representatives, John Boehner, JSF, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NDAA, NORAD, Northrop Grumman, Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, Pearl Harbor, RQ-4, security breach, Senate, sequestration, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, USS Nimitz
Posted by Java Joe on December 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Mega-rich individuals are often providers and innovators of information technology such as cyber-security, cloud computing and data mining for both commercial and federal customers.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 1-percenter, AirWatch, amazon, Ashton Carter, Bezos, Biden, Blackberry, China Sea, Christine Fox, Chuck Hagel, Dabbiere, drone, dry submersible, entrepreneur, FIST2FAC, I-400, Lockheed Martin, MUOS, Octocopter, Pentagon, Prime Air, S301i, satellite, SEAL, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, submarine, training
